“We do have a nexus to drugs out of Daytona and Putnam County,” he added. Staly said a lot of the drugs are coming from Orlando, with most of the cash going back there. The 45 arrested in Flagler took place at some 35 different locations, the sheriff said, through undercover buys followed by search warrants. “Often firearms were being used in the commission of these crimes or they were in the hands of convicted felons.” “Since many dealers sell various types of drugs, Operation Spring Cleaning focused on capturing sales and trafficking related to highly abused controlled substances,” Staly said. “The rest of the system is not.” The three sheriffs: from left, DeLoach, Staly and Chitwood. “Law enforcement is doing our job,” Staly said. Some of those arrested have been convicted. It was the familiar format of such periodic press conferences over the years-involving some of the same people arrested over those years, a detail that the sheriffs referred to as a “generational” problem they’re seeing in some families, where the drug habit has been passed down from parents to children. The mug shots, the figures and several pictures of the drugs and weaponry seized were arrayed on easels or against the wall at the Flagler Sheriff’s Operations Center for a noon press conference today featuring three sheriffs: Flagler’s Rick Staly, Putnam’s Gator DeLoach, and Volusia’s Mike Chitwood. In Flagler, the seizure numbers add op to 266 grams of cocaine, 251 grams of heroin or fentanyl, 121 grams of opioid pills, 3,200 grams of pot, 14 firearms, nearly $58,000 in currency, and so on. Those are some of the 45 people arrested or sought over the past seven months in Flagler County’s portion of ma 27-county operation that resulted in nearly 5,000 arrests for drug trafficking, with 12.5 million grams of controlled substances and 1,679 firearms seized. Colon, 34, was charged in the death of Savannah Deangelis, 23, who overdosed on heroin and possibly fentanyl in late October, allegedly after taking delivery of a package from Colon at her home.
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